Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-07
DON'T LFAyE THE FARM.

--MARaARET DELAND, in Harper's Magazine for
May
DON'T LEAVE THE FARM,
Come, boys, something to tell you;
Come near, would whisper 1t low
You are thinking of leaving the homestead,
Don't be in hurry to go.
The great stirring world has inducements,
There Is many gay busy smart,
But wealth is not made In a day, boys,
Don't be in hurry to start
The farm is safest and surest,
The orchards are yielding to-day;
You're free as the air of the moutains,
And monarch of all yon survey;
Better stay on the farm awhile longer
Though profits should come rather slow;
Remember, you've nothing to risk, boys,
Don't be in hurry to go.
FEEDING TIE CALF,
The good village pastor was ready
for church. He had donned his "suit
of solemn black tied his rather limp
white necktie, carefully polished his
boots and smoothed his old plug hat
with silk handkerchief when his
daughter CALCULATED: Law sakes, pa,
you have forgotten to feed the calf.
A momentary cloud crossed the good
mans brow but he YEARLY plodded to
the barn, filled bucket with meal and
milk and water for the forgotten animal,
who, plunging his head into the recep-
tacle, guzzled the contents rapidly down.
Then raising his black muzzle he she'd
a shower of mush all over the good
man, drenching his treasured trousers
nd Jichi OF {Io -
polish of his boots. With look of
anguish at his bedrabbled dress, and a
murderous glance at the cause, now
switching his tail and mildly staring at
him, the worthy pastor groaned: eff
I was not humble follower of the meek
and lowly One I would knock your
blanked head through that bucket,
blank youl" And then he sorrowfully
wendell his way into the house for re-
pairs.
WHY THE BUTTER DOESN'T COME.
LIST. Because of some disorganized
or unhealthy condition of the COW.
I'd. On account of the unwhole-
some food and water supplied.
3rd. Want of proper cleanliness in
milking and setting the milk.
4th. Lack of right conditions in the
raising of the cream-pure air and
proper time-kept too long.
9Th. The cream not raised and skim
med in due time.
9th. Cream not churned at the pro-
per time-kept too long.
18th. Cream is allowed to freeze-in-
jured still more in thawing.
Sth. Cream too warm when churn-
ed. ..--
9th. Cream too cold.
10th. Churn not good one.
18th. Lazy hand at the churn.
Some persons have the churn around
nearly all day, summer OF winter; take
few turns and stop; fool around and
begin again. Cannot make good butter
SO. Use box or barrel churn; begin
moderately and continue so until no
more vent is needed, and then go on at
a good pace, without stopping till the
butter comes. When the cream is per-
feet and the temperature is right,
about sixty-five degrees in winter, for
batch of butter weighing twenty to
thirty five pounds, twenty to twenty
five minutes should be ample Time for
churning. In the winter season I
should expect to find the cause in the
reason given above in No. 4 to No. 8.
Practical Farmer.
THE BEST SEEDS FOR PROPAGATION.
Nursery men are well aware that seeds
of the best and choicest apples are not
best for planting. All that is wanted
is strong, vigorous stock. and this is
best secured by planting seeds of the
small, inferior varieties, too poor for
anything except making cider. These
are generally used not alone because
they are easiest to get, but because
they are the best. If we wished fruit
from these seedlings only seeds from
the best favored varieties would be
planted ;but as the propagation invariably
gratis these, then the kind of fruit the
Seeding might bear isimmaterial. The
chief drawback to this method of
getting trees is that it gives little oppor-
tunity for valuable chance seedlings
which used sometimes to be obtained.
Perhaps, however, it is as well that
improved varieties of fruits should be
bred, for by selecting seeds from the
choicest kinds, and by cross fertilization,
much of improved stock is bred. This
will make two kinds of seeds, each best
for retrospective purpose, one including
the great bulk of seeds from inferior
fruit for producing stocks, and the other
the carefully selected few seeds for the
amateur and specialist seeking new
varieties.
SELLING BUTTER PROMPTLY.
No farm product of equal value is
more unsatisfactory to hold for a rise
than butter. Its price. when newly
made, is nearly always the best. 1t is.
subject to greater deterioration in quail
ity than any other product, must suffer
some in comparison with that which is
freshly made. The old-fashioned dairy
butter made in June used to be good
fora twelvemonth if packed in sweet
crooks and covered with salt brine to
exclude any odors. There is little
such butter now. That made by the
creamery process is frst-class while
fresh, but lacks keeping qualities. As
nearly all enterprising dairymen have
creameries, there is less really good
butter made from milk set in the old
fashioned way than formerly.